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Hello my fellow “everyday, ordinary, unassuming guru” seeking community members. Did you spot a few gurus over the weekend. Everyday gurus don’t take weekends off. They were there if you were looking. Tammy is curious about how to better her life (see below). You can bet with that kind of curiosity, there will be a guru or two passing her way very soon.

Hi Mr. White

I am twenty-one, and I get caught in a lot of situations that my mother calls foolish drama. She says I’m wasting my life, and I’ve got to grow up. I don’t know how to avoid the drama. What would you say about that?

Thanks, Tammy

Hi Tammy

The lighthouse keeper is asked, “How do the ships see the guiding light shining from the lighthouse when a storm is causing so much fog?”

The lighthouse keeper answers, “The light passes through the fog to guide them because the light is not part of the fog.”

When you do not become part of the daily soap operas that surround you, Tammy (when you don’t get caught up in the gossip), you can pass through those dramatic events without getting involved in them. It really is that simple.

And your mother is right when she says you are wasting your life if you’re getting caught up in the drama of life. Opportunities to go beyond where you are right now come when you begin looking beyond the soap operas that you are caught up in right now.

Blessings to you Terry … Rob

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Hey folks

One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself these days, is to remind yourself that the way the world is going is not the way you have to go. Remind yourself of that daily.

Blessings & love to all of you, Rob

PSReal rewards present themselves to you whenever you see through those false rewards that the soap operas of life offer you.

Everyone is a guru. You are a guru. Everyone has genius to share with me and you. You have genius to share with the world. Sometimes just asking, like Tim does (below), is the way to go.

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Hey Rob

You’ve got a way of cutting through the thicket when answering us guru seekers who inquire from you. I have an inquiry. What tip would you give me that cuts right to the chase, if I want to succeed with creating a new me?

This is me seeking you out, as an everyday guru, for advice, Tim

Hi Tim

That’s an easy one. Become absolutely willing to put aside those long cherished beliefs that you hold of yourself. That’s the only way to guarantee personal self-change that is productive and lasting.

Don’t let your belief system stand in the way of your spontaneous nature. Become more self-aware to your habitual ways, and more consciously self-directed when setting higher aims for yourself.

Make a habit of reflecting more and reacting less.

Yup. That’s it. If you want it pure and simple. You’ve got it.

Thank you for asking Tim … blessings, Rob

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Well fellow “ordinary guru” seekers … what do you think?
Are you willing to drop your long cherished beliefs about you?
I am referring to those beliefs that have you struggling with life.
One such belief could be that you have to pay your dues to get ahead.
What dues? Look closer into that.
I hope this got you thinking. Thinking about who? About YOU!

Love and blessings to all of you, Rob

PSDo not … I repeat … DO NOT go along with negative self-talk that drags you along through life. Don’t cherish those conversations. They will destroy you.

I don’t quite know how to stand up for myself. My friends get so involved in harsh opinions about other classmates, and try to drag me into the conversation. They get angry with me if I won’t join in. In my heart, I feel it is wrong to slander others. I would like to think that love is the truth, and the truth does not slander. I just wanted to get that out there. Maybe I can be an ordinary guru to someone that feels caught in the position that I feel caught in at times. The way I stand up for myself is I just quietly walk away. I’m in my senior year and want to start growing up.

Thank you, Macie

Hello Macie,

When a person gives a slanderous or harsh opinion about anyone, Macie, and you feel there is energy attached to that opinion – that person wants to drag you into the matter (perhaps I should say, “into the muck”). Yes, you are correct in assuming that’s what’s happening. If you do not care to go there, Macie, your job is to be strong – allow no one to drag you into a conversation of which you care not to join. Your choice of just walking away is a wise one.

We all contain an inner poise that empowers us to listen to whatever is being spoken, no matter how outrageous it may be, and yet remain unaffected by it. When you stand tall with that poise you need not respond, no matter how much that person tries to induce you. You’ve experienced that poise, haven’t you Macie. It feels great, doesn’t it.

It is psychological, as well as spiritual law that a negative or sour mood can only grip you if you grip it. You are absolutely right by not gripping it, Macie. Just doing that – refusing to grip it – is a wonderful demonstration of you being a guru for others. Thank you for being a guru.

Keep your inner life private, Macie. Always! That is your temple. Let no one into your temple except on the terms that you set. When you rely on the higher within you, then you are unaffected by those lower level conversations out there in the world that slander others. You don’t buy into them and you don’t add to them.

For a young lady, you are way ahead of the game. The truth first, last and always, Macie. The act of slandering contributes to an awful condition not only in one’s outer world, but also in one’s inner world. You have proven to me that you love being at your best, and you want to contribute only your best. I say to you, “you are a gift to the world!”

Blessing to you Macie, Rob

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Hey folks

Macie has been a guru for me with what she has shared. I suggest you read it again and ask, “What’s this got to do with me?” Allow her to be a guru for you.

Blessings & love to all of you, Rob

PSDaringly defy darkness. Slander is darkness. Seek the light. Look at everyone with an eye for what’s right.

It seems to me that a lot more spirituality is creeping into the business world, and it is showing up in the success seminars that I attend. One of the results for me is that you make a lot more sense now than you did to me a year ago. What do you think about my premise that spirituality is becoming more and more a part of business practice?

I am grateful for the wisdom you offer with your blogs, Dyna

Hi Dyna

A good business is built on spiritual plans. Spiritual plans are practical plans. If it ain’t practical, it ain’t spiritual. The business world has always been a spiritual world (at least that part of the business world that has succeeded).

You find the kingdom of heaven that you seek, Dyna, when you can see your “mental home” for what it is – a haunted house of scary thoughts. The treasures that any person seeks are under the haunted house. That is where the kingdom of good will and prosperity is found. And so, a likely vehicle to begin such a quest is to get involved in a business of some sort. Businesses are built to serve others. What better way to serve yourself than to begin by serving others?

Mental destruction begets divine construction, Dyna. T’is only after you break down those limiting beliefs that cause you to frown that you can rebuild your life as a heavenly estate. When you build a good business, you break down those bad beliefs.

There are a lot of metaphors in the above answer, and it can sound very spiritual. I get that, Dyna. However, the fact remains that the kingdom of heaven (which is simply that heavenly state of satisfaction that you want to achieve in your life), requires good, sound practical plans of action if you are to get there. Only the willing and the focused find the kingdom. Only the willing and the focused become successful in business.

Does that help Dyna? Blessings to you, Rob

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Hey folks,

Only a quiet mind is a focused mind. Spirituality is quiet. It is not loud and boisterous. Spend more time quieting the mind and you will find more ways to the kingdom you seek.

Blessings & love to all of you, Rob

PSIf you want to know who you are not – you are not your limited beliefs about yourself. If you want to know who you are – you are all those wonderful opinions that pop us when you rid yourself of those limiting beliefs.

Have your daily observations included an “ordinary guru” or two this week? The day will come when you will no longer doubt that there are more “everyday gurus” passing your way than you can shake a stick at. Glory be that day! TK has a great question (see below)

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Hi Mr White

Sometimes I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, and sometimes I even think you’re full of baloney. For example, in one of your blogs you said, “live for yourself.” That sounds very self-centered and selfish to me. Where am I seeing this wrong?

Thank you, TK

Hello TK

“To live for yourself” is to live by your own values, by your own principles, by what you deem is important to you. When you are “living for others” you live by their values, you live by their rules, you live to satisfy them rather than do what truly satisfies you. To seek outside of yourself for what is truly important and valid for you, well that’s just plain foolish, TK. Who, better than you, can tell you what feels right and true for you?

I hope that helps clear this up a bit. As to whether or not I am full of baloney, perhaps that is so to some extent. Polarity exists in all of us. How are we to notice our strengths if we have no weaknesses? How are we to acknowledge our intelligence if we don’t have a little baloney to contrast it against? 😊

Blessing to you TK, Rob

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Hey folks

What about you? Are you “living for yourself” or are you living to please others? Are you adopting their values and rules even if they aren’t a good fit for you? You must delve deep inside of yourself to answer this, which is what we do with these blogs together.

Blessings and love to all of you, Rob

PSLearning the difference between genuine thinking and acting on thoughts that others impose on you, now that is a very worthy task to take on

Hello fellow “everyday guru” seeking tribe members. Sometimes the best way to attract an ordinary guru to come your way is to simply start your day with an inquiry. Just stay with the inquiry. Watch what happens next. Stephan (below) asks a simple question that could change a person’s life.

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Mr White

I think you are fairly seasoned in the stuff of which you write. So, I ask you this, “what do you mean by freedom?” You use that word often.

Thank you, Stephan Wright MD

Hello Stephan,

Freedom to me is freedom from thinking from past programming. Freedom for me is experiencing sweet liberty from the reactive, mechanically inclined mind. Inner liberation is daring to delve into the unfamiliar. This is where innovation begins. This is where startlingly new creation begins. It is where good poetry, wonderful dance and extraordinary music begins.

When you tell yourself you are nobody – that can be an incredibly freeing fact! Now you get to act from nothing, from no place in time or space. WOW! How freeing is that? You’ll find that you find plenty of new things to think about for the next month. What might come from that? True freedom is worth the sacrifice of the conditioned self – aye? Then any lily in the field is fit to guru you.

Blessings to you Stephan

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Hey folks,

What if you decided you were nothing, you were nobody? Now, you could decide who you were without the past influencing you. How freeing would that be? That’s what folks do who recreate themselves anew. Dares’t you?

Blessings & love to all of you, Rob

PS You must catch your programmed nature before it leaps into your day if you are to be free to get out there and creatively play.